On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 10:09:31AM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: > There is a systematic way we handle this: it has to be shown that the > license text is so common that deduplicating it in this way will save > disk space on the vast majority of Debian systems. I doubt that all > those licenses meet that criterion.
i'm surprised that diskspace (in base-files) is even a factor here,
we're talking about kilobytes or maybe a few megabytes.
i'd value maintainer time & ease much higher than a few hundred
or thousand kilobyes of diskspace.
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cheers,
Holger
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